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Columbia University's Nicholas Murray Butler: "[The] world, so far as its professed and constantly extolled ideals are concerned, is in a state of well-nigh total collapse. . . . Modern man has returned ... to the jungle. . . . The great philosophers, men of letters and men of science v.ho dominated the thought ... of the past 200 years are no longer recognized or ever referred to as offering guidance for conduct and for public policy...
Last week a U. S. District Court in Philadelphia decided the case of Apex Hosiery Co. v. Branch i, American Federation of Hosiery Workers, William Leader et al. (TIME, March 27). The verdict: Branch i & its President Bill Leader would have to pay the well nigh impossible sum of $711,392.55 in recompense for damage done Apex's plant and business in a strike two years...
...will be on coast defense duty. Together with 150,000 men in the Navy and 118,000 in the Air Force, not to mention the 60,000 British troops in India and Burma, Britain's trained fighting men will be well nigh 1,200,000-quite a respectable figure for a non-conscript country...
...believe you made the point that a 600 percent increase in attendance was proof that the course is a "snap," When the attendance rises in several years from two students to a total of well nigh thirteen, then one may well suspect that insidious forces are at work. The fact that the Department of Far Eastern Languages has increased its teaching staff and facilities fifty per cent within those years and that it is rapidly coming to be regarded as the center of Far Eastern Studies in America should not cause us to hesitate in holding this view...
...textile industry's 1,250,000 workers remember peppery little Francis Joseph Gorman as the leader of the great U. S. textile strikes of 1934. Last week Mr. Gorman loudly reminded them that he is also the president of a well-nigh forgotten union: United Textile Workers of America...